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A family of three was hospitalized Saturday after being attacked by an adult and eight teens at Six Flags Great America after members of the larger group apparently cut in line and were using foul language when the family exchanged words with them, according to Gurnee police. Gurnee police Officer...

With more than $1 million sitting in its affordable housing fund, the village of Oak Park is weighing options on how to spend the money. Village staff presented several options during the Sept. 25 village board meeting, options which included the expansion of existing programs, creating a new down...

After months of public outcry, state and federal officials have agreed to investigate an alternative option for off-site disposal of contaminated sediment dredged from the Indiana Harbor and Shipping Canal. The decision comes after East Chicago residents and local environmentalists publicly objected...

In response to storefront vacancies and the shift to online shopping, the City of Highland Park has officially downsized its downtown. The Highland Park City Council Monday removed some areas of the central business district from the Pedestrian Oriented Shopping Overlay zone (POSO) where ground...

West Dundee officials are considering a speed enforcement program that will target downtown Main Street motorists. Despite the road's 25-MPH speed limit, there have been nearly 100 vehicle crashes between First and Third streets in the past five years, according to a report prepared by West Dundee...

A watchdog of the Libertyville-Vernon Hills Community High School District School Board said during a Lake County Circuit Court hearing Tuesday that officials connected to election-related perjury charges should recuse themselves from board activities until the cases are resolved. Tim Anderson...

The Naperville mother accused of killing two children committed the crimes out of anger and resentment and then feigned some psychotic symptoms that "looked like a bad Hollywood movie," a prosecution expert witness testified Monday at the woman's murder trial. Dr. Alexander Obolsky spent all day...

Some Hinsdale residents upset their neighbor is installing a 5-foot wrought iron fence along the front and side of his property allege he used his position as the chairman of the Historical Preservation Commission to get the regulations changed. "This is really a misuse of power," said Bob Schultz,...

Aurora police made public the dash cam video of a traffic stop before a teen exchanged gunfire with police and ultimately shot himself. They made the video public Monday afternoon in a Facebook post attributed to Police Chief Kristen Ziman. The post also described the October 4 incident in detail...

A motorcyclist was killed Monday night in Elmhurst after a collision with another vehicle at the intersection of North and Berteau avenues. Emergency personnel were sent to the scene at 9:10 p.m. and saw the motorcyclist had massive head injuries, according to DuPage County authorities. The rider,...

A 39-year-old Wauconda man died Saturday night after the car he was driving left the road and ended up on its roof near Harvard in McHenry County, officials said. Matthew D. Grey was driving a 2015 Dodge Dart east on Hunter Road about 7 p.m. and failed to stop at a stop sign at Hunter and White...

The historical marker next to Gen. William Lynch's grave at Bluff City Cemetery didn't tell the story of who the man was, Jim Zingales said. Zingales didn't know much about Lynch before a year ago, either, he said. Zingales didn't know that a decorated Union general hailed from Elgin until he was...

Inside the former Arlington High School, Shirley Sander Brown, a member of the school's class of 1945, giggled like a teenager again as she attracted the attention of two classmates from the class of 1946. "They haven't changed a bit," said Brown, 90, adding how she enjoyed her status as the "older...

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Neuqua Valley senior Jack Vercautren knew his final shot of Tuesday's DuPage Valley Meet was a big one. He just didn't realize how big it really was. Vercautren sunk a 30-foot birdie putt from the fringe to put the finishing touches on a solid 73 at Bartlett Hills. It also gave Neuqua the team title...

For the record, Stevenson senior Matt Schawel is 1-0 in career playoffs. Competing in the North Suburban Meet on a warm, windy Tuesday at Willow Glen Golf Club in North Chicago, the Schawel beat Lake Forest senior Scott Frevert in a one-hole playoff for the individual conference title. Schawel's...

Lowell junior Annalise James was born into a never-ending competition. "My family was really active in general — all kinds of sports," she said. "I just loved competing." She ran her first 5K at the age of 8 with her father. But it was growing up with three siblings that helped James develop the...

Things came easily last year for Benet's Franklin Rutkowski. Perhaps too easily. Rutkowski's first varsity season was an unqualified success. As a sophomore, he burst onto the scene by contributing 19 goals and a team-high 17 assists, earning conference offensive player of the year honors while helping...

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A family of three was hospitalized Saturday after being attacked by an adult and eight teens at Six Flags Great America after members of the larger group apparently cut in line and were using foul language when the family exchanged words with them, according to Gurnee police. Gurnee police Officer...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel declined to criticize two Chicago police officers caught on Instagram kneeling in support of nationwide protests, but said he understands why the department is disciplining them.“They were somewhat betwixt, between two different aspirations,” Emanuel told reporters Tuesday.The...

Dear Amy: My husband and I are retired. We married 12 years ago — several years after his ex had an affair and left him. My husband has two grown sons (around 40), one of whom is married. The married son and his wife essentially ignore that I exist. My attempts to talk to them directly about it...

Let's say you're a TV producer, and you have decided that - despite the fact that your show is a family sitcom - it's time to kill off the wife character after the first season. Things were going fine, but now your leading man's former female co-star is available, and, well, a lot of viewers would...

The Chicago Cubs will try to clinch their second consecutive National League Central title outright Tuesday night without second baseman Javier Baez and shortstop Addison Russell in the starting lineup against the St. Louis Cardinals at hot Busch Stadium. Baez suffered a right knee bruise in the...

Are y’all ready to see your “Fixer Upper” ... for the last time? (Sob.) Chip and Joanna Gaines are saying goodbye after Season 5 of their wildly successful HGTV show, which put Waco, Texas — and shiplap — on the map. “It is with both sadness and expectation that we share the news that season 5...

The conduct of detectives who convinced a learning disabled 16-year-old boy to confess to a rape and murder in the "Making a Murderer" case "made my skin crawl," a federal appeals court judge in Chicago said Tuesday. But if 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Diane Wood's harsh criticism of...

In a poll, whites were asked whether the NFL players kneeling in protest during the national anthem are helping or hurting the cause of racial justice. No fewer than 85 percent said they are hurting it. Clearly, this offense to the anthem and the American flag is the worst possible way to change...

Niles North High School in Skokie has suspended its varsity football season until further notice because of "a possible hazing incident," according to a statement on the Niles Township High School District website. In the statement, dated Monday, district officials say the school became aware of...

Whitney Young, one of Chicago’s top academic high schools, has canceled its football season with three games left to play because it cannot field enough players.Chicago Public Schools requires a 22-member roster for a varsity football team. While the Whitney Young Dolphins were at that level the...

The Cubs promise the new premier clubs under construction at Wrigley Field will allow some fans to "experience the magic of Cubs baseball and Wrigley Field in a whole new way." Fans purchasing season tickets for the clubs will certainly have to dip into their pocketbooks in a whole new way. Prices...

The Bears have had their hands full in September trying to slow some of the league’s best quarterbacks. Thursday’s trip into Lambeau Field will mark the fourth consecutive game in which the Bears will play against a starting quarterback drafted in the first round. The quartet of Matt Ryan, Jameis...

A Joliet woman died and another person was critically injured when three semi trucks collided Tuesday morning on eastbound Interstate 80 just west of Larkin near Joliet, according to Illinois State Police.The crash happened about 6:10 a.m. One driver was dead on the scene, and another was airlifted...

One week after prosecutors brought charges against five Wheaton College football players for an alleged hazing-related attack on a freshman teammate, the attention now turns to the court proceedings where both legal experts and recent history suggest a quick and palatable resolution. The student-athletes...

The funeral for Kenneka Jenkins, the Chicago teen found dead in a hotel's walk-in freezer in Rosemont, will be held this weekend on the Far South Side, church administrators said Monday.The death of 19-year-old Jenkins has drawn national attention, with her family asking the FBI to investigate...

Like the Pittsburgh Steelers, the nation’s major NFL advertisers have decided to hunker down in their locker rooms and wait out the public opinion storm over the national anthem protests. Taking shelter are some of the country’s best-known consumer product-makers — Pepsi, Budweiser, Visa and McDonald’s...

"Obamacare" lives on. Senate Republicans, short of votes, abandoned their latest and possibly final attempt to kill the health care law Tuesday, just ahead of a critical end-of-the-week deadline. The repeal-and-replace bill's authors promised to try again at a later date, while President Donald...

The U.S. ramped up its response Monday to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, even as President Donald Trump brought up the island's struggles before Hurricane Maria struck — including "billions of dollars" in debt to "Wall Street and the banks which, sadly, must be dealt with." The Trump administration...

President Donald Trump's criticism of players who kneel during the national anthem sparked angry protests around the National Football League Sunday, as about 200 players sat, knelt or raised their fists in defiance. A week ago, just six players protested. Most NFL players on Sunday locked arms...

“Saturday Night Live” announced Tuesday its new additions to the cast ahead of its season premiere this Saturday, including a pair of performers and one writer who are all from Chicago. Chris Redd (who co-stars on the Netflix sitcom “Disjointed”) and Luke Null, an improviser who has performed in...

It can be easy to miss. The brick cottage tucked outside Wrigley Field's left field corner is unremarkably plain, a building overshadowed by the Cubs' sparkling new office building, the bustling fan plaza and the old ballpark itself. Most fans pay little attention to the house at 1053 W. Waveland...

The Bulls began training camp with double practice sessions Tuesday. And after the first one, the newly signed Nikola Mirotic focused on numbers. Not contract numbers. Weightier ones. Mirotic said he now weighs 260 pounds, up from the 237 at which he finished last season. It's all part of the fourth-year...

In one of the biggest crackdowns on the corrupting role of money in college basketball, 10 men — including a top Adidas executive and four assistant coaches — were charged Tuesday with using bribes to influence star athletes' choice of schools, shoe sponsors, agents, financial advisers, even tailors....

It was a little over two years ago that Cubs manager Joe Maddon declared war on the Cardinals in a classic rant after they allegedly threw at Anthony Rizzo in a game at Wrigley Field. "We don't start stuff, but we will stop stuff," Maddon said. That was the beginning of the new era of the Cubs-Cardinals...